First Murder: Vampire Teen Drama Not Renewed

Netflix has canceled the TV series “The First Kill”with actresses Sarah Catherine Hook and Imani Lewis.

Released last June, Killing the First entered Netflix’s weekly top 10 English-language TV series in its first three days of broadcast, coming in at number 7 (third place excluding Stranger Things) with 30.3 million hours watched. It ranked 3rd in its first full week on the air with 48.8 million hours watched, just behind Stranger Things season 4 and Peaky Blinders season 6, and spent another week in the top ten. before going down again.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix will not produce a second season of #FirstKill, the vampire teen drama executive produced by Emma Roberts https://t.co/up8yf4r9AF pic.twitter.com/e2LDPkm7kQ

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The first kill easily surpassed 100 million watch hours in its first 28 days of broadcast. The series, which doesn’t have the longevity of most Netflix hits, has still not reached the viewing and episode completion threshold required to qualify for a new season, according to various sources.

Netflix ‘Lesbian Teenage Vampire’ Marketing Kills First Killer

Showrunner Felicia D. Henderson can’t stomach the cancellation of The First Kill and blames Netflix for it:

I enthusiastically signed up for this series because it had something for everyone, like strong women, supernatural storylines, an epic Shakespearean battle between feuding families, and a world famous black family. need to be read. The initial marketing art was great. I guess I was expecting this to be the start, and other equally exciting and important elements of the series – monsters vs. monster hunters, the battle between two powerful matriarchs, etc. – would finally come to life sooner, but that didn’t happen. t will happen. When they called me and said that the show was not being renewed because the number of views was not high enough, I, of course, was very disappointed. What showrunner wouldn’t? I was told a few weeks ago that they hope the success rate will increase. I guess, it is not so. They licensed IP, paid for the pilot script, and set aside a reasonable production budget.

Trailer of the film “The First Murder”

Written by Felicia D. Henderson, The First Murder is based on the short story “VE”by Victoria. Schwab. In this story, Juliet Fairmont, a teenage vampire, must commit her first murder to take her place in a powerful family of vampires. She sets her sights on the new girl in town, Calliope “Cal”Burns. But to Juliet’s surprise, Calliope is a vampire hunter from a family of notorious killers. Both discover that the other will not be so easy to kill and, unfortunately, too easy to love…